On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Jean Hollis Weber<[email protected]> wrote: > Gary Schnabl wrote, regarding a discussion taking place on the doc-...@ooo > list: >
I haven't been following that discussion, so I'm utterly lacking the context. However, I can address one specific point. >> Google "XML editors" for searching several free or cheap shareware XML >> editors (48,000 hits--add freeware and there are still 16,000 hits). > > It's been awhile since I looked for "free or cheap XML editors" so perhaps > things have changed. In my experience, the free or cheap ones were far from > easy > to use for anyone not familiar with, and comfortable working with, XML code. > Any > program that provided a reasonably WYSIWYG front-end, and was therefore easy > to > use, was expensive. If something that fits my criteria has shown up in the > past > year or so, I would genuinely like to hear about it. The makers of the Serna WYSIWYG XML editor have recently open-sourced the free version of their tool. http://www.syntext.com/products/serna-free/ They tout support for DITA and DocBook only for their Enterprise (non-open) Edition. However, it looks like that just means that the DITA and DocBook open-source tools and stylesheets are packaged with the Enterprise Edition, whereas you would have to supply them yourself to use them with the free edition; the editor can use any XML schema. The EE also has some extra support for working with DITA references. http://www.syntext.com/products/serna-feature-matrix/ --Janet
